Software Engineering AWS Cloud Full Stack Developer - Defence Professional London, GB

At IBM CIC, we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK. A career in IBM CIC means you\’ll have the opportunity to work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You\’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, whom may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long‐term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:

Many training opportunities from classroom to e‐learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications

Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us

Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year

Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks

A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome

Internal recognition programs for peer‐to‐peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees

Tools and policies to support your work‐life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme

More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

In this role, you\’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilitiesWe are seeking a AWS Cloud Full Stack Developer to join IBM\’s delivery teams supporting public‐sector and defence programmes. In this role, you will contribute to the design, development, and long‐term maintenance of secure, cloud‐based applications that underpin critical government and defence operations. You will work across both frontend and backend technologies while leveraging AWS services to build scalable, resilient, and high‐performing solutions. As part of IBM\’s multidisciplinary Agile teams, you will collaborate closely with engineers, designers, architects, and client stakeholders to deliver applications that meet strict standards for reliability, security, and compliance. This position offers the opportunity to work on complex, high‐assurance systems while shaping modern cloud‐native solutions used across UK public‐sector environments.

Build and maintain full‐stack applications deployed on AWS that meet the performance, reliability, and security requirements of government and defence environments.

Design and develop APIs and microservices using technologies such as Node.js, Python, or Java, ensuring strong modularity, maintainability, and scalability.

Create responsive, accessible, and user‐centred front‐end interfaces with frameworks such as React.js, Angular, or Vue.js.

Use AWS services—including Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, and RDS—to deliver robust, cloud‐native application features.

Apply secure engineering practices, optimise performance, and ensure applications scale effectively under varying workloads.

Contribute to CI/CD pipeline development and automate deployments using AWS CodePipeline or equivalent tooling.

Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, architects, and fellow developers within an Agile delivery model.

Write clean, maintainable code that aligns with IBM\’s engineering standards, and participate in peer code reviews and technical documentation.

Required educationNone

Preferred educationBachelor\’s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Proven experience in full‐stack development, with a strong focus on building and maintaining cloud‐based applications.

Practical, hands‐on experience developing backend services using Node.js, Python, or Java, including building APIs and integrating with cloud services.

Working knowledge of key AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, and IAM, and an understanding of how to use them effectively within cloud‐native applications.

Experience working with both relational databases (such as PostgreSQL or MySQL) and NoSQL databases (such as DynamoDB or MongoDB), including data modelling and query optimisation.

Solid understanding of unit testing, integration testing, and debugging practices to ensure code quality and reliability.

Familiarity with Git and modern version‐control workflows, along with experience using deployment automation tools and practices.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, to be eligible for this role, you must have the legal right to work in the UK. Visa sponsorship is not available now or in the future. You must be a UK resident who has lived continuously in the UK for the past 10 years, and you must be able to hold or obtain UK government security clearance.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Desirable certifications:

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

HashiCorp Terraform Associate

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

ABOUT BUSINESS UNITIBM Consulting is IBM\’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients\’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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Being an IBMer means you\’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you\’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

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ABOUT IBMIBM\’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we\’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it\’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILSIBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Job TitleAWS Cloud Full Stack Developer – Defence

Job ID81132

City / Township / VillageLondon

State / ProvinceLondon, City of

CountryUnited Kingdom

Work arrangementHybrid

Area of workSoftware Engineering

Employment typeRegular

Position typeProfessional

Work scheduleUp to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends – based on project requirements)

CompanyShift

Shift typeGeneral (daytime)

Commissionable roleIs this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

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